| ITSNEVERTOOLATE | In The Boyfriend, "A jolly old flame has lots of sparks; And ... to fall in love" (2'1,5,3,4) |
| ELECTRICIANS | Those working on The Wire produced lots of sparks (12) |
| FLAMBEAU | Passion almost gets boyfriend a torch (8) |
| TOPOFTHEMORNING | A jolly old Irish greeting, just before the Prime Minister's arrival? (3,2,3,7) |
| EXCESSIVEWEIGHT | Old flame has cheese twigs served around four and gets fat (9,6) |
| HEADOVERHEELS | **One way to fall in love ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| TANGO | Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi proved you're never too old to fall in love in this (Last ----- in Halifax) |
| SCORCH | In the DC Comics series, the alter ego of Aubrey Sparks and an antagonist of Superman |
| LETSDOIT | Tied lots in knots at encouragement to fall in love (4,2,2) |
| EXTINCT | Cold in the shade after old flame has died out (7) |
| EXAMPLESOFWORK | Old flame has raw folk poems in folio (8,2,4) |
| DEMETRIUS | Character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ensorcelled to fall in love with Helena (9) |
| ARMAGEDDON | Final action of a jolly old chap |
| HOAXES | Old flame has nothing to do with falsehoods (6) |
| EXPLOSIVE | Fiery old flame has power: love is renewed (9) |
| ILSA | Film character who says, "With the whole world crumbling, we pick this time to fall in love" |
| ONEKISS | All it took to fall in love with Dua Lipa in 2018 (3,4) |
| BEAU | From "charming, handsome", word for a dandy or fop; or, the boyfriend, male admirer or swain of a belle (4) |
| ROMANCANDLE | A firework producing a continuous shower of sparks punctuated by coloured balls of fire (5,6) |
| DASHED | Hurried out a jolly old expletive (6) |
